Grades 3-5

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Grades 3-5
3-5
PLC WORK

• PLC Work

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Team Members
Debbie Knodel Grade 3 Teacher Janis
Behrens Grade 4 Teacher Connie Field
Grade 5 Teacher Susie Strohmaier Title
Coordinator and Title Teacher Primary
Classrooms and
Grade 5 Math Janet Sanger Educational
Assistant Title (Reading and Math)
Grade 4 and
Librarian
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Our Focus for 2012-2013MATH

• Our focus for the school year of 2012-2013 is
  Math. We are focused on helping students achieve
  higher scores on daily classroom performance and
  the Measurement of Student Progress (MSP) by
  developing Assessments that will identify
  students who are not achieving mastery on
  individual State Standards and establishing a
  plan of action to ensure all students are making
  gains.
• Our long term goal is to be ready to transfer
  from the in place State Standards to the Common
  Core State Standards in 2014.

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NORMS

1. Be on Time - 820 Start Time
2. Bring materials Be prepared
3. Respect each other
4. Attend to goals and objectives
5. Accomplish work
6. Consensus decision-making
7. End on time

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State Standards and Common Core

• Cross grade level understanding of the Common
  Core Standards
• Review new math curriculum My Math.
• Using the understanding that State Standards are
  in affect for 2 more years, develop cross grade
  level Assessments.
• First common cross grade level assessments will
  cover Multiplication and Division units of study.
• Assessments will be given in January.
• A study of student Data will take place and a
  plan of action will be developed for low scoring
  students.

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• 1/14/2013 Handed out and went through the PLC
  3-5 Grade Team Notebooks Established over-due
  Norms for 3-5 Grade Team Worked on the
  remaining January dates on our Calendars, setting
  goals for those dates Will complete table for
  standards test by 1/28.
• 1/21/2013 No School We will try to meet one
  day after school to work on tables.
• 1/28/2013 Figure of Multiple Choice,
  Completion, and Short Answer questions for grade
  level Standards being tested for multiplication
  and/or division. Know how many questions are
  needed for each standard in MC, C, and SA. Work
  on developing Test using Exam View.

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• Targeted Work for February Finish Unit Test and
  
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  Give
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  Start work of Common
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  Core Check Lists
• 2/4/2013- Complete the Unit test for
• Multiplication/Division
• 2/11/2013- Look at the Data given by the Unit
  test and plan what will be done to help students
  who have fallen below the 80 Mastery level. Put
  plan into action.
• 2/18/2013- No School
• 2/25/2013- Work on check list for Common Core
  State Standards which can be used with the in
  place State Standards.

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February 11, 2013 Our team finished working on
the common (across grade level)
Multiplication/Division tests. We did not
realize the amount of time it takes to prepare a
test, revise, and label the state standards.
This is huge and we have many more to come. We
certainly appreciate the time we are given to
work on these assessments. February 25,
2013 Mrs. Knodel was absent from school today,
and Mrs. Strohmaier was at the H.S. working on
TITLE. Mrs. Field, Mrs. Sanger, and I worked
on putting together our check list for Common
Core which will be on the Year Long Plan, in the
student working file and sent home in students
report cards. We made our March calendar.
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March 2013 Targeted Work Look at DATA from
common assessments and take a look at last years
MSP results. We think that by looking at the
results now, it gives time to go back and
reinforce what students were low on last year in
hopes to bring those scores up with this years
classes. This will also take looking at DATA
collected over the year for those areas, if they
have been taught. March 4, 2013 Look at
common assessment and MSP scores. Have
discussion as to where students scored low, how
they have performed this year in those areas, and
what can we do to help this years group of
students do better. MSP. March 11, 2013
Discuss a Plan of Action. March 18, 2013 Talk
about how the plan is working, do we need
adjustments made, whats next? March 25, 2013
To Be Determined _________________________________
____________________________ Notes Continue
developing unit assessments for each grade
level.
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March 4 - Whole PLC meeting with Mr. Ellis to
set Elementary goals on how to meet the district
goals.
Elementary Goals Promotion Rate Goal All
students will meet standard at 80 percent or
higher. Grades P-2 will meet standard with
year-end benchmark assessments at a score of 80
percent or higher. Common assessments Progress
monitoring Testing on a regular basis DIBELS,
Chapter Tests, Spelling Tests, etc. Intervention
for reading and math Common Curriculum Math
Goal All students will meet standard at 80
percent or higher. Reteach Retest Basic Skills -
Math Facts Intervention Common Assessments
Fall, Winter, Spring progress monitoring
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Language Arts Goal All students will achieve
80 in all Language Arts classes. QRI DIBELS Use
the five components of reading. Writegroup Class
Writes Common Curriculum Vocabulary Content
structure and mechanics of writing at grade
level. Interventions Across content
areas. Science Improvement Goal All students
will be introduced to vocabulary, critical
thinking and experiments . Introduce terms
Introduce science subjects Make science fun
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March 11 - Our PLC team 3-5 picked up on what we
were going to do on the 4th. We went over our
Multiplication assessments and looked at where
students were low on their MSP scores last year.
We discussed the low percentages that the state
had set 2 years ago and how they had raised the
meeting standards scores last year. We also
questioned what the CCSS meeting standard scores
would be or where to find this information. We
talked about the sample test for CC and who has
looked at it or taken any part of it for their
grade level. We looked at how to use Microsoft
Office to make tables to chart our information
on. March 18 Goal Setting Meeting at the Middle
School. All staff from Elementary and Middle
School met with Mr. Ellis to hold discussion
about the goals we set and how we would meet
these goals. We offered ideas and suggestions.
We are still left wondering where time will
come from to do all the things we need to do.
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March 25- Our 3-5 PLC team met in the Library
along with Mr. Ellis. We discussed what we
wanted to present to our School Board, about
setting a few of our remaining meetings aside to
get together whole staff and discuss how to
approach our writing program next year, and
planning our schedules for the 2013-2014 school
year. We understand that what we plan may have
to have a few changes or alterations made, but we
feel it is important to start planning our
schedules to fit in Writing and Interventions for
Reading and Math. What will our Interventions
look like P-2 and 3-5? We also feel we need to
discuss whether to remain on a quarter system or
change to a tri-semester.
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• Targeted Work for April Turn the emphasis to
  Writing and planning for 2013-2014, if everyone
  is in agreement.
• April 8- Email to be sent to all staff to meet
  in the Library to discuss writing. Mr. Ellis has
  been invited and said he would love to be in
  attendance for the discussion.
• Some things to look at
• Language
• Where to start and what will each grade
  incorporate, or do we all begin with the same
  integrations and add each year. We have been
  doing some strategies in our classrooms, but are
  we doing the same? Will they build on each
  other?
• Posters?
• Mr. Roettger and Mr. Ellis were in attendance.
• April 15- Will continue looking at next years
  writing program built on the new Common Core
  State Standards.

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Ms. Behrens will find and hand out sample year
long plans already created by other school
districts across the U.S. As a staff we will
explore these year long plans to see what other
school districts are doing. We will be working
with the Ritzville Grade School and grade level
teachers to make sure our year long plans are
coordinated during our collaboration days. It was
determined that we needed to see a scope and
sequence of common core skills across the grade
levels and after trying to list out the new
writing tools we are using from Step Up to
Writing, we tabled this and decided to write down
all the tools we are using and bring it to the
April 22 meeting. Everyone should bring a list
of the Step up to Writing Activities you are
using in your classroom.Since we have our CCSS
books for ELA now, it might be a good thing to
bring those.We also discussed have a document
that showed everyone's standards.  I will try to
find one.We will be looking at what we can use
across the grade levels beginning next year.  We
might want to look at some common vocabulary
also. 
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• April 22 Mrs. Knodel and myself were not
  present. Mrs. ONeil reported that she handed
  out the scope and sequence documents. A list of
  tools used by everyone in their classrooms from
  Step Up to Writing was made. Using common
  vocabulary was discussed, and agreed upon that it
  was very important.
• UPDATE List of tools used by grade level
• PK Topic/Main Idea/ Details (few times model)
• Emotion books, Writing Center, Holding A Pencil
• K Draw, Write, Think
• What Am I thinking
• Label
• Journal Writing
• Writing Center
• 1 What Am I Thinking
• Narrative retell (Poster-Beginning Part)
• Sentence book topic, details, Closing
• Personal Narrative
• Narrative
• Circle Chart
• Vocabulary Book reading, math, science
• Topic/ Main Idea/ Details

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• Vocabulary
• Narrative Retell- Beginning/Middle/End
• 2 Column Notes
• Highlighting
• Dash and Dots
• Story Frames 1-8a Summary
• 2 Column Notes
• Transition Bookmarks Narrative/Expository
• T - for summary Writing
• Story Frames
• Explanatory Paragraph R -
• Im not sure what was determined for our next
  meeting date.
• April 29 All Present
• It had been determined at the April 22 meeting
  that we would discuss the tools we use and make
  posters, run things off, etc. Kind of a make and
  take meeting.
• Mr. Roettger came in with the list of Principal
  candidates for us to preview along with the
  questions for us to look at and make suggestions.
  We spent most of our meeting doing this.
• We were able to look at the Step Up to Writing
  Posters that were purchased and test them for
  lamination.
• We made no plans for our first May meeting. Mr.
  Ellis has a surprise for us!

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May 6 What a wonderful surprise we had this
morning. The EAs threw us a wonderful breakfast
for Teacher Appreciation Week. Cant wait to see
what the rest of the week has in store for us.